Lavender Roses or Reservations

Whose co-workers have already been made jealous by flower-purveying boyfriends? Who's getting something expensive? Whose boyfriend/husband is a shoe-in to blow off V-Day off?  

Here are Five Things, in advance of your good gossip:

1. Did you know that if you want to let someone know you've fallen in love at first sight, you should give them lavender roses? We learned that from . Red roses stand for love and passion, white for purity, yellow  for friendship, coral is desire, light pink flowers represent gladness and grace and dark pink is thankfulness. 

2. Wait another moment to make reservations at your own peril. You're cutting it really close if you haven't made the call yet. We've got some suggestions of .

3. Also, we hope you know we've got a directory of local restaurants at your fingertips to roll through. 

4. Today vocalist Dino Rosi will be at the Douglaston /Little Neck Branch of the Queens Public Library today.

5. Talk of another day named for a Catholic saint, St. Patrick's Day, got Mayor Bloomberg .